Deep Estimation of Speckle Statistics Parametric Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04145v1
• Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 20:16:20 GMT
• Title: Deep Estimation of Speckle Statistics Parametric Images
• Authors: Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Ivan M. Rosado-Mendez, and Hassan Rivaz
• Abstract summary: Quantitative Ultrasound (QUS) provides important information about the tissue properties. QUS parametric images can be erroneous since only a few independent samples are available inside the patches. We propose a method based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to estimate QUS parametric images without patching.
• Score: 2.599882743586164
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantitative Ultrasound (QUS) provides important information about the tissue properties. QUS parametric image can be formed by dividing the envelope data into small overlapping patches and computing different speckle statistics such as parameters of the Nakagami and Homodyned K-distributions (HK-distribution). The calculated QUS parametric images can be erroneous since only a few independent samples are available inside the patches. Another challenge is that the envelope samples inside the patch are assumed to come from the same distribution, an assumption that is often violated given that the tissue is usually not homogenous. In this paper, we propose a method based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to estimate QUS parametric images without patching. We construct a large dataset sampled from the HK-distribution, having regions with random shapes and QUS parameter values. We then use a well-known network to estimate QUS parameters in a multi-task learning fashion. Our results confirm that the proposed method is able to reduce errors and improve border definition in QUS parametric images.

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